Shawn Tan wrote:

> yes, you could set up your own community gateway and set up your own filtering 
> rules on the gateway.. however, this would require some knowledge in 
> networking and firewall configuration.. 
> 
> it's relatively inexpensive as you can just use any old computer as a 
> gateway.. install a special firewall linux distribution like 
> http://www.smoothwall.org/.. configure it to block everything except approved 
> sites..
> 
> then, you'd just need to make sure that all community traffic flows through 
> this gateway..

Good idea. Are the computers in each community in a central location 
or spread around in individual homes?

If they are spread out is the community physically small enough that 
maybe a satellite could connect to the gateway described above and 
then the community could be networked with WiFi routers?

Tim
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